All expenditures above $10 million must go before voters as referendum items.

And if we were paying for the organs, federal expenditures would go down.

The biggest single expenditure - roughly a third of the total - has gone for media advertising.

"But at some point, somebody's got to get a handle on those expenditures or the city's not going to be able to function."

Furthermore, expenditure in future financial years is now going to be difficult.

"People know their expenditures are going to be fairly predictable."

Experts feel that the entire expenditure has gone waste.

The Bush campaign's biggest single expenditure - more than a third of the $60 million - has gone for advertising.

"The expenditure of the funds to create the system is going to be tough."

From 1980 to 2000, states' expenditures on education went up 32 percent.